I’ve just seen the Cam Smith incident and that’s probably the worst of the lot. Not sure what the MRP were smoking this week

Absolute shocker and I didn’t know better I’d say the payer he hit deliberately dives

The Cam Smith ban is ridiculous. You can disagree with severity of some of the decisions but that is just stupid.

Whichever individual/s made the call on that Cam Smith one should feel embarrassed. Turning it over (that they surely will do) won’t save any face given how bad it is.

4 games for Byrne and a £750 fine.

An absolute joke of a decision. Hope the lad doesn’t have too many bills to pay as well this week.

But facebook had it on good authority this morning that Wigan were paying backhanders to the RFL so that our players would be shown some leniency.

What happened?

Said it before and I'll keep saying it. The are absolutely laughing at the fans.

No one can tell me Hicks wasn't a snotty nosed g!mp who got picked on at school. Obviously loved being the teachers pet and now he's running the refs. What do we honestly expect???

Thought Bentham was in charge of the refs?

Who knows what they all do then.

It all amounts to nothing & lining their own pockets either way. Hicks was the mouthpiece for the partial back track earlier this year which, following the Byrne charade, seems to have been reversed again.

They need to get proper people in from outside of the sport. Non RL people, with a proper business and commercial focus.

I very much doubt Eddie Hearn would be putting his best players in the stands, or allow bent refs to hog the spotlight.

Funny we're not seeing comments of outrage from opposition fans and journos across all social media platforms for Byrnes ban. I've hardly heard a whimper about it and watching the forty 20 podcast, they said the grading seemed fair! Flip that around to the dozens of comments I saw on Harry Smith's challenge on opening night, how harshly treated Liam Watts was, how Ellis should've been banned etc and it's as though people are prepared to accept the crackdown as long as it's on the right clubs.

Honestly I'm shocked

i'd ban the no6 for the blatant feigning of injury and posted that over the weekend when i saw it on twitter. Looked like he'd been taken out with a sniper

Just going off social media and personally I am not seeing a peep about the Byrne one. Nothing in the league of some of the other bans we've seen handed out. Maybe people are just coming to accept it now but we'll see the next time a HKR/Cas/Salford player gets pinged.

As for Harry Smith just pointing out that fans are prepared to scream the place down for bans and say how unfair it is when they don't pick one up and those same fans said what a disgrace it was that guys like Watts had been done on that first night but you then don't hear anything said when a Wigan player gets hit with a ban as harsh as the Watts one. Basically people are prepared to lose their minds about decisions as long as the shirt colours are the right ones. I've no issue with that, it's been common place for donkeys years but it is amusing that you hear fans of lesser clubs say 'the big clubs get all the decisions' but they clam up when something like this happens or go the other way and say 'it's a fair ban that'.

No they shouldn’t, they should be sacked.

I'm not sure who the player was that decided to lie down like he's been run over by a truck and he should feel ashamed as well. The incident should be used as an example to all the players that it isn't acceptable. If they want change and they want people to be judged fairly, they need to stop trying to take advantage of the situation because the disciplinary aren't going to call them out on it and they'll see their fellow professionals banned. Some players and clubs want it all ways at the minute.